Yvor Coron, the dictator of an unnamed Balkan country threatens and blackmails his neighbors, even attacking them with nuclear weapons. No one can stand up to him. One day while shooting up fishing villages for sport, Coron finds Konga dozing blissfully on his island in the Indian Ocean. Coron, envious of Konga's physical strength and inner peace drops a bomb on Konga's head out of sheer meanness. After Konga's headache subsides, he walks/swims to Europe to dismantle Coron's military machine although he spares the lives of Coron's men who are only following orders.

At his wife's request, Lenny buys a "Marsian" flower (with a vaguely human face and pronounced overbite) from a sideshow barker. Lenny's dog disappears soon after annoying the plant with his incessant barking.

Because of his small size and lack of natural weapons, it would seem that man would be doomed to extinction. However man's superior intelligence makes him the master of the great predators that once hunted him, and more.